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S H OR E 
BREEZE 
An Appeal for Chankagiving 
Church Service 
BY CLARENCE-~- STRONG POND 
Minister of the Church at Beverly Farms 
Thanksgiving is a national holi- 
day and the President of the Nation 
and the Governor of the Common- 
wealth have issued their proclama- 
tions calling upon the _ people: 
“Upon Thanksgiving Day let us all 
go to our several places of worship, 
reverently acknowledging our grati- 
tude to God and reaffirming our re- 
ligious faith.’? The Thanksgiving 
day is a national day and was es- 
tablished primarily to present an op- 
portunity for the people to gather 
together and publicly praise God. 
In later days we have been so abun- 
dantly blessed and have prospered 
so richly that we have not been will- 
ing to take the time to grant an 
hour to a public service of praise in 
the churches. 
Thanksgiving is_- essentially a 
‘““‘New England’’ day and the real 
import of the day should be main- 
tained for sentimental reasons as 
well as religious reasons. I make 
my appeal to the descendants of the 
old New England families—of such 
an inheritance I am proud; all New 
Englanders are proud of their ances- 
try—to maintain this old New Eng- 
land custom. Let it not become a 
service of yesterday among us. 
Of course, the times have changed 
and some of the household must re- 
main in the home this day of home 
days, but some of the families can 
represent the home. To really ob- 
serve Thanksgiving there ought to 
be services of praise in the churches, 
but ought they to be left to the min- 
isters? The Scripture reads: ‘‘Let 
all the people praise Him.’’ 
There will be a_ service in the 
church at Beverly Farms Thanks- 
giving morning at 10 o’clock for one 
hour in the auditorium. The or- 
ganist will present a full service as- 
sisted by an orchestra of eight pieces 
from the local band. The choir will 
sing a Thanksgiving Anthem. The 
minister will preach ‘‘The old New 
England and the New New England 
Thanksgiving.’ 
Can you not spare an hour on 
Thanksgiving Day? Services will 
be held somewhere and there will be 
an empty pew where your home 
ought to be represented. I appeal 
again in the strongest way I know 
to the old New England families to 
perpetuate the day our ancestors in- 
augurated. I anneal to the members 
of all patriotic societies for this day 
because a national holiday after the 
war of 1861-65 and was a day of 
Thanksgiving for the United Nation. 
Let this day be maintained as fer- 
vently, as reverently, and as honor- 
ably as our other patriotic days. 
This is written ‘‘lest we forget.’’ 
Let us be loyal to the faith of the 
pilgrims and nuritans, to the mem- 
ory of the patriots of 1861-65, to the 
Great Founder of our religion, Jesus 
Christ, and to the church of God, on 
this day of Thanksgiving. 
The Henry W. Stephens family of 
Detroit, closed ‘‘Pinethwaite,’’ the 
Paine cottage at Pride’s Crossing of 
which they have been the summer 
tenants, today. They will remain in 
Boston tomorrow for the Harvard- 
Yale football game. They will ‘also 
spend some days in New York be- 
fore going to Detroit. 
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‘‘Indian (Ridge,’’ the Pride’s 
Crossing summer home of Mrs. Jas. 
F. Curtis, was closed for the season 
late Saturday. Mrs. Curtis has en- 
larged the North Shore contingent 
opening homes on Marlboro street, 
Boston, for the winter. 
An addition of several rooms is 
being made to the Amory Eliot cot- 
tage, ‘‘Wildwood,’’ on Sea street, 
Manchester. Roberts & Hoare of 
Manchester, have the contract. A 
new heating apparatus is being in- 
stalled to permit the giving of week- 
end parties there during the winter. 
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Miss Clara Winthrop of Boston, 
spent the week-end and Tuesday at 
West Manchester at the small Win- 
throp cottage. Miss Winthrop at- 
tended the semi-monthly meeting of 
the Manchester Woman’s club Tues- 
day. She is a member of that or- 
ganization 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Charles P. Gardiner’s recep- 
tion and tea Wednesday afternoon 
at her residence at 178 Marlboro 
street, Boston, was in honor of her 
debutante granddaughter, Miss Car- 
oline Elizabeth Perkins Cabot, 
daughter of Mrs. Wiliam R. Cabot, 
of Boston and Beverly Farms, who 
before her marriage was Miss Mary 
C. Gardiner. Another daughter of 
Mrs. Cabot, Miss Mary Gerald Ca- 
bot, came out last season. A group 
of this year’s debutantes assisted at 
the reception by having charge over 
the tea-room, were the Misses Eliz- 
abeth Bigelow, Margaret Foster, 
Esther Slater, Florence Lee, Ger- 
trude Townsend, Mary Coolidge, 
Alice Bryant, Anne Stedman, Sarah 
Evarts, Katharine Key and Eliza- 
beth Almy. Pink roses adorned the 
tea table, as its chief decoration. 
Miss Cabot wore a gown of pale 
blue chiffon, and her grandmother, 
Mrs. Gardiner, wore black silk com- 
bined with lace. 
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Joseph Clark Grew, first secretary 
to the American embassy at Vienna, 
is on leave of absence and is visit- 
ing his mother, Mrs. Edward S. 
Grew, of Marlboro street, Boston 
and .‘‘ All Oakes,’’ West Manchester. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Preston Gibson were 
host and hostess for a brilliant din- 
ner-dance Wednesday evening, in 
honor of Miss Mary Southerland of 
Washington and Magnolia, fiancee 
of Louis Bacon of Boston. It was a 
brilliant function of the early sea- 
son at the capital. Miss Helen 
Taft was among the guests present. 
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Miss Gertrude Amory, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt Amorv 
of Beacon street, Boston, and Pride’s 
Crossing, made her bow to society 
Wednesday at a _ large reception 
when she was the guest of honor at 
one of the prettiest affairs of the 
week. The young debutante has as- 
sisted previously at all the large 
debutante receptions and her for- 
mal debut called out the smart set 
en masse. Among the _ invited 
guests were Miss Florence Lee, Mr. 
and Mrs. George Lee, Miss Frances 
Saltonstall, Miss Elizabeth Bige- 
low, Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bigelow, 
Miss Phyllis Sears, Miss M. Aspin- 
wall, Miss Caroline Fessenden, Miss 
Evarts, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Park- 
man and others. 
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Augustus P. Loring has_ been 
named a trustee and an executor of 
the will of the late Commander Ed- 
ward Linzee Amory of Boston, 
